Carlos Cañas (September 3, 1924 - April 14, 2013) was a

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painter who studied art and theory at the School of Arts of El Salvador. In 1950, he received a scholarship to study art, history, aesthetics, and literature in

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at the

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. Cañas participated at the First Latin American Biennial,

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(1951); in the Fourth Biennial of the Engraving, Japan (1964); in the Sutton Gallery, EUA (1979), amongst other important exhibitions at the worldwide level. In 2012, he received national prize of culture, Premio Nacional de Cultura of El Salvador.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Canas, Carlos 20th-century Salvadoran painters Male painters 21st-century painters 1924 births 2013 deaths People from San Salvador